Bill O'Reilly's Right-Wing Buffoonery: A Brief Catalog

Bill O'Reilly invited me on his Fox News show last Wednesday night to criticize me for characterizing The O'Reilly Factor as "right-wing buffoonery," in a blog post I wrote (about Stephen Colbert and Pete Seeger) for the Huffington Post the previous day.

In my five-minute interview with O'Reilly, he asked, "Can I have an example of 'right wing buffoonery' so I don't do it again?"

I relented once. I told O'Reilly that he had unfairly criticized Social Security. O'Reilly said, "When you said I criticized Social Security, I never have." He was lying. On his September 13, 2011, show, O'Reilly said that Social Security, "is not exactly a Ponzi scheme, but it's close."
O'Reilly insisted, "You can't give me an example of right-wing buffoonery on this program." He said, "You can't back it up and that makes look intellectually deficient." He accused me of "perpetuating propaganda."